I just wonder if everyone’s giving Wal*Mart a little too much credit. I buy fredmertz’s sunburst better anyway. I really doubt first that they’d have the brains to attempt it and more so that anyone could read anything positive about the company as a result. An interesting (possibly unintended) allusion, though!

As much as I appreciate a hearty Vonnegut reference, I am just not seeing it. I might even go so far as to say that if you spontaneously made the connection between that logo and the drawing from Breakfast Of Champions, you might not have properly resolved the anal stage of your psychosexual development! Be careful…soon enough you’ll start having dirty dreams about your own mother! Ain’t Freud Fun?!

I guess I’m just glad you didn’t make a goatse comparo…although I guess I just did!

I’m just not sure WHY they’re changing their logo, considering it’s one of the best-known “products” in the WORLD. I guess they’re trying to be “more like Target”, but just changing the sign out front really won’t do that. They’d have remodel all of their stores and change the culture inside those stores. Does anyone have a link to an article explaining this change?

This post just gave me a flashback to high school in the Chicago suburbs circa 1987. I worked part time at a Mobil station with a very fey 200lb Korean-American dude who, in reference to an attractive customer would say, “Gurrl, I’d let him pull into my ‘Red O’ any day!”

A friend of mine noted the asshole similarity last week, and I immediately thought of our dear, departed Kurt. That said, it also looks like this “Third-Eye” plate design I would have bought a long time ago if it wasn’t so expensive:[www.poshchicago.com]

It really doesn’t matter if Wal-Mart uses a percent sign with its name, because at the end of the day I am just a two-faced whore who will just bitch about Wal-Mart, but still shop there to save a few bucks (except for groceries). I know a lot of sheeple like me who say we hate Wal-Mart, but continually shop there–and if adding a ‘ass’terisk to their sign gets me in the door hoping for soemthing new (like may, just maybe some customer service), then go fo it. Maybe Wal-Mart execs and Kurt V. can compare their butts when they meet in hell.

The Walmart where I forayed as a cake decorator had a severe identity problem. They couldn’t decide whether they were Wal-Mart or Wal*Mart or WALMART or Walmart in their in-store created signage.

I guess by making it really obvious that it’s an asterisk, using upper and lower case letters, and then moving it to the outside the word, they’ve managed to not only maintain the integrity of the word “Walmart” but also put to rest the whole “OH GOD! Is that a hyphen or an asterisk I should be using!?” issue.

But then again, who really cares except people making jury rigged signage?

As for Vonnegut: I don’t see it, but I’m amused. And The Sirens of Titan was an amazing novel. I cried.

Yes, this comparison is a mighty stretch. Google ‘sun symbol’ and it is readily evident that this has been used for thousands and thousands of years across many cultures and civilizations to represent our beloved star .

Whether it is meaningful to identify Walmart with the life giving sun is another matter entirely.

This site used to be full of funny, irreverent posts like this, that were meant to make “intelligent consumers” laugh (and they did). Part of having a cause is being able to laugh at the absurdity of it now and then. Remember laughter?

Then something happened… (20/20?)

I realize this, too, falls outside of the comments code, but I needed a reminder of why I haven’t read this site in nearly two years, and this was the perfect example. Lighten up, people! Sure the world’s run by greedy, lifeless, miserable corporate types who don’t care about you – but that doesn’t mean you have to roll over to them and become lifeless and miserable yourselves!

well, at least Wal Mart has an “open asshole” design. Frankly, I don’t see much connection here. Charles Schultz used the Wal Marty version in his comics since the 1950’s and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t channelling assholes.

@parrotuya: Wal*Mart’s smiley face was different from *the* Harvey Ball Smiley Face. I only know that because I live in the city where it was “invented” in.

As for the rest of this, I don’t quite know what’s more ignorant, the main article or the wealth of comments. “LUL LUL … I CANT BELIEVE WALMET EXECS READ BOOKS HAR HAR.” “I CANT BELIEVE THAT KURT VONEGUT EVAR READ A FAMILY TREE.”

The connection to the logo and an anus is asinine. Did anyone think about the fact that it is probably the morphing of their old “star” in the middle of Wal & Mart?

Anyone who thinks that looks like a rectum, or would consider that art, has definitely got something wrong in their neurons. Just b/c a stupid “artist” drew an asterik and sold it as art, doesn’t mean he’s a genius or that Walmart is copying him.

I just laugh when people buy stuff like that, especially if they pay a lot. The people who make it are probably laughing too, thinking, “wow, that took me all of 5 seconds to make. What an idiot you are.”